From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 25 04:20:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E82C16A428 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:20:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CBD143D49 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:20:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k3P4KLZQ027288; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:20:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k3P4KK2K027287; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:20:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:20:14 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20060425042014.GA26867@thought.org> References: <20060424222019.GA24086@thought.org> <20060424223139.GC20219@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060424223139.GC20219@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19+ years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: When 5.5-stable? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:20:25 -0000 On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 06:31:39PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 03:20:19PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > About a week ago I finally upgraded my DNS server from 5.3-S > > to 5.5. I see that I still caught a -prerelease" kernel. > > Any ETA of when 5.5 will be -stable? (Most of my other > > FBSD server can be not quite//less than stable. But if my > > DNS srver bites the dust, .... ) > > No-one is really working on back-porting changes to 5.5, so what you > see now is likely to be almost identical to what you'll get as > 5.5-release. > > > Also, is 5.5 the LAST of the 5's? > > Yes, development of the branch is effectively ended since the world > has moved on to 6.x. The only reason 5.5 was released was to batch up > some of the changes made since 5.4, mostly made last year. > Makes sense, thanks. I'm at 5.4 and 5.5 everywhere so the next step is to move to 6. I'm only a bit surprised that things went to well with 5.5. (But then FBSD has only crashed one time in ten years, :-), and that speaks volumes. gary PS: Any big gotchas in goingfrom 5.5 -> 6.1??? Kris? Anybody?? -g -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix